National Republican., 1887-02-21

they cannot answer about their eyes, about
shing. lat e's fool SoHs can mask ask Question That wise
man cannot answer. o. you cavilling men
9, you profound men o, you learned men,
aS yep rdm i've Yes %Ssrs
say that Jesus ChIistis not Divine Saviour.
who is he2 Where. will you go after, you
leave your law books and your medical pre-
newspaper oiliee-where will you go to2 Your
body will be six feet under ground.
yShst Where will will your ytr soul be eg The The
shToud on. Those spectacles will be removed
from your vision, for the sod will press your
eyelids. Have, you any idea that an earthly
OF what stuff shall gather the material for
the letters of that word which describes your
eternal home? Shall 4 be iron chain or ana
sSRsaSe s%eaed ssSEs Of your dns s nds pillow @ W
come of a garden or a desert? o, quit the
puzzling questions and try these momentous
Questions. Quit the small questions an and 4
ofdiscussng fne whether the i serpent III Eden was
fguratiyeor literal whether the Mediterran-
can fish did or did not swallow the recreant
prophet, whether this and that and the other
thing is right or wrong, come and discuss one
win heaven?'' That Ia the question for you.
lost their souls because they thought there
was discrepancy between Moses and Prof.
silliman-because =, they could not up-
Sefsse Sefore The sun nov rosehe Light appearing IL
verse three of Genesis and the sun appearing
not until verse sixteen-and because they 90
otknow how the moon could stand stlia Will ,h
had decided upon the theory of natural selec-
tion. A German philosopher, In dying. had
for his chief sorrow that he had not devoted
his whole life to the study of the dative case.
Ol when your Immortality is in p;rii why
quibble? Quit these non-essentials, my
dear brother In the n,er name OF m GGd ask yoI
soul that you do not play the fool.
What Is that man doing over In bowling
Green, New York? Well. he Is going IN for q
relling with the clerk about the spots-the red
spots on the ticket-and he Is quarrelling about
the peculiar signature Of the president OF the
about the manner Of the clerk who hands
him the ticket. How long has he been stand
ing there' Three weeks Meanwhile, per-
an9 he shrei Of he
could take him to the last vessel that could bear
him to his engagement in London, sun he
stands In Bowling Green discussing the ticket,
What do you say in regard to that man? You say
he Is fool. Well, in that very way are IN any
men acting In regard to the matters ofthe soul
They are cavilling about the atonement the
red spots on tho ticket-about the character
OF the minister who hands them the ticket
about whether 1t has adlyine or human sigma
ture. and meanwhile all their opportunities
hear the last tap ofthe bell announcing their
last chance for heaven Go aboard DO not
waste any more time In higgling and carping
and criticising and wondering, and, In the
presence Of an astonishod heaven, playing the
fool.
play the fool who rndesS6e tS pay 9St
SLOW upon the railroad depot where we stop
| twenty minutes to dine. We dash In and we
dash out again., We do not examine the aren't.
lecture of the building nor the face OF the
caterer. We supply our hunger, we pay our
| money, and we put on our hat, and take our
| place In the train What is that depot as
bound? Now, my my friends, this world d
a momentohs destination, aud yet how
%sqSy Sysd on our aGSa Quincy RasR RoassR
We had come TO the final depot, when our
stopping here is as compared with our stopping
there as is twenty MINUTES TO 1weye hSG1s sH6nd
compared with ten thousand million years
| Would Spain sell us Cuba for a bushel of wheat.
Would England sell us India for ton Of coal
| Would Venice sell us all her pictures for an
would he a better bargain for England, Spain
and Venice, than that man makes who gives
ore who are saying to-day; "Give me the
| worlds dollars and you may have the
eternal rewards. Give me the worlds
SRPESnds SPESndis of God me twenty says or ry S
| or sixty years of worldly successes and dom
| care what becomes of the future am going
| into that world uninsured l take theresp0nsi
bility. Don't bother me about your religion
| Here have the two worlds before eme-this one
and the next, l have chosen this. Go away
| from me. God and angels and all thoughts o
| the future I" But where is Cnrsus and Cleo
patra; and Hsopas who had one dish OF food
| that cost one million four hundred thousand
| dollars; and Lentulus, who had pond of fist
worth a hundred and seventy-hye thousand
| dollaTs and Scaurus, who bought
| country scat for twenty-nine million dollars
and Tiberius, who left at death fortune OF one